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We have a fine day more often than a kiln-cast.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about day

There is nothing sharper than a woman's tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman, nothing

The best looking-glass is the eyes of a friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about eyes

One look ahead is better than two looks behind.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

The eye should be blind in the home of another.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about blind, home

Eight lives for the men and nine for the women.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

Many an honest heart beats under a ragged coat.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about heart

A guest should be blind in another man's house.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about blind, home, house, man

Apelles was not a master painter the first day.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about day

Let him who will not have advice have conflict.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about conflict, advice

Let him who will not take advice have conflict.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about conflict, advice

A woman like a sheep, an affable friendly woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman

The longest way around is the shortest way home.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

It's a bad hound that's not worth the whistling.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad luck, bad

Sending the goose on a message to the fox's den.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A glutton lives to eat, a wise man eats to live.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man

A list full of gain and a village full of shame.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about shame

More grows in a tilled field than is sown in it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Pity the man who does wrong and is poor as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about bad, man